Waregem For the fourth time in seven days was in the neighborhood of the Waregemse fire station was set on fire. Will were restaurant In the Torre and bakery Loquet the victim. No one was hurt but near cross the anxiety head on. The arson attacks may be the work of a woman who today, it was noted when they located a suspicious manner at the rear of the restaurant.
A blackened wall and remains of a window are the silent witnesses of the arson to the side of the restaurant In Torre, in the rue du marais in the district t Gaverke in Waregem. A unknown put a screen cover in plastic in a fire that drawn up was in the emergency staircase of the building, on the side of the Azalealaan. Slightly further away was also a fire at two generator sets at the back of the bakery Loquet. “We smoke a light something and thought for a moment that there is in our kitchen something misliep”, says Carine Anckaert of restaurant In the Torre. “But suddenly, someone came hastily in to say that fire was at the rear. We gristen all of our fire extinguishers of the case and walked to the outside. When the fire department arrived, the flames actually largely extinguished.”
Research is underway at full speed
The fire extinguishers didn’t have to drive far, their barracks is just 150 metres away. It sufficed to what after to extinguish the fire. On the spot, however, showed that also two generator sets of bakery Loquet, at the same rear wall, tried was to set stuff on fire with balls of paper. The fire went out; however, more or less automatically. What the fire department and the neighborhood concern is that they will be in a week’s time four times must pluck up for deliberate arson in the immediate vicinity. A week ago was on the other side of the barracks a left seat in flames, a day later it went to solid waste. Monday last was the fire itself a victim. An unknown propte in the entrance of the building paper in the letterbox and put out that fire. The barracks were consequently well below the smoke. The investigation of the arsonist runs at full speed.
